Improve your landscape photography (7 top landscape photographers)
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Save 10% by using code JAN22 till 31st Jan 2022 Discover landscape photographers you've possibly never heard of. This list of 7 landscape photographers will inspire you to discover more about their work.
*please excuse the cropped ratio - for some reason Handbreak cropped it without me knowing*
Landscape photography is as old as photography itself, and is such a wide ranging genre. Difficult to define or pigeonhole, it can range from the greatest views of sweeping vistas, to the beauty found in the modern urban landscapes we so often find ourselves in.
This look at the work of seven landscape photographers will help you appreciate how each of us looks and interprets the world in our own unique way. Both colour and black and white photography is included in this list.
"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment." - Ansel Adams, Landscape Photographer
Links to further reading:
Sabastiao Salgado
www.icp.org/browse/archive/co...
Edward Weston
edward-weston.com/
Fay Godwin
www.faygodwin.com/
Michael Kenna
www.michaelkenna.com/
Ansel Adams
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_A...
Obie Oberholzer
obieoberholzer.net/
Robert Adams
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...)
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Can't speak for the others, but much of the excellence of Adams', Weston's and Kenna's work is their mastery of darkroom printing, as much as the photography. Great video.
Yes, actually someone asked about this point in a different video.
Especially in B&W a great print made by the photographer themselves is a joy to behold.
@@ThePhotographicEye I didn't understand the cult of Ansel for a long time because the books are all terribly boring and flat. And that turns out to be because he did work-for-hire for the US Government for years and many of his photographs are essentially US property and so can be used without paying his estate royalties or with their input on printing. And he never shot for straight printing. So you get flat images with no drama. But in art school, I was able to see the prints he made himself (including some giant prints made for corporations) and my opinion turned completely.
Aside - In this video, your microphone or audio recording sounds muted in the higher frequencies (that would help us understand what people say and distinguish different voices).
Thanks, this is an earlier video where I was still learning how to use the sound in Resolve.
I really love your videos discussing photographers and their work.
Love this video Alex. I've had a camera in my hands for the vast vast majority of my life, shooting everything from sports, landscapes, street, news, weddings, starting with film, going digital, and these days going between the two, I shoot anything and everything, but I've never been one to sit and study other photographers work, my excuse is I'm too busy out shooting, in reality there's sooooo so many and so much to research, I do have a few favorites in various genres, and have a wee collection of books by various photographers. This channel I'm sure will fill in a few gaps in in my gaping education, and introduce me to others work. Looking forward to binge watching and learning from the channel. Happy new subscriber. Kind regards Paul in NZ.
The best B&W photographs, overall, that I have ever seen are "Bodine's Chesapeake Bay Country" by A. Aubrey Bodine. Another overlooked great.
Terrific. I watched most of your videos in one shot. Fast paced and it really gives you an overview of great photographers as well as your own personal tips for new photographers. Well done.
Hi Deborah.
Glad you have been enjoying the videos and thanks for your comment
I'm really loving the channel so far!! super great content :)
Thanks. I'm really pleased to hear you're finding them interesting.
A few days ago the algorithm suggested me a documentation about Fay Godwin including some interviews. What a photographer. It's completely right to put her in line with the other men.
I think that documentary must be getting surfaced a lot more recently, I've also had it suggested to me :D
Brilliant!
Just found your channel, enjoying your content and I've already watched several of your videos. It's nice to see a focus on the art of photography and the act of seeing.
Thank you so much for including Fay Godwin, she has been a huge inspiration for my landscape work. Robert Adams is a photographer many people should know about, not just for his images but also for his essays on photography!
I keep forgetting about Robert Adams and his writings!
''photography is embracing the light for all of it's craziness''
it's an amazing idea. the best definition i ever heard about photography
and the best inspiration. thanks!
Great overview, well presented! Love the breathtaking views...they really are mind-blowing!
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it :)
I’m learning so much, thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks I did only knew a few of these photographers. You are so wise and a true inspiration.!
My pleasure David, thanks for watching
Absolutely amazing information - super informative! :D Thank you once again!
Thanks Matthew. Glad you enjoyed it.
Excellent!
Thank you! Cheers!
Enjoyed. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for reminding me through your series about what I love about photography. I've been including a video or two of yours in my morning routine in order to help me refocus on the art of photography rather than, as you've said, the gear. I'd add to this video that Masao Yamamoto is an excellent juxtaposition to traditional, western landscape photography.
Glad to hear it!
@@ThePhotographicEye 3:18 Isn't that selling your nation a little bit short?
Wonderful selection of photographers Alex. Really informative viewing. It’s great channels like yours, championing the exemplary Fay Godwin. I love Raymond Moore and John Blakemore - masters photographers also.
Thank you for your very interesting commentary on various photographers. I’ll be looking for books on their work. Something I’ve never given much thought to.
My pleasure.
An "eclectic" mix certainly, but stimulating thank you 👍
Glad you enjoyed it, some of them are a left of center, but that's my own taste coming through
Excellent channel! There are only 2 or 3 other channels with this type of approach to photography and they are a breath of fresh air into the stagnant photography landscape (pun intended) on TH-cam. Keep up the great work! And for the record, I agree with the order of the list!
Welcome aboard! Thanks for the vote of support! :D
Alex, thank you so much for introducing me to the work of Oberholzer! 👍 Just when I thought I knew every great photographer out there... 😆
Terrific video. I just discovered you on TH-cam, and looking forward to watching all your videos. I agree with Robert Adams.
Welcome aboard!
Kenna is another one of my favorites!
Recently discovered him myself, but his photography is gorgeous.
Probably one of the most under discussed landscape photographers of all time is Eliot Porter, contemporary of Ansel Adams, etc. but in color!! Prolific and extraordinary in his composition. Even had an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC in the late 1970’s-early 1980’s.
Enthralled by the observations and captivating walking the gallery of achievement by the many great photographers you touch on. My opinion is I agree with whatever you said... 🧐 You say so much, it's a stretch to take it all in! I am very excited to watch again however! High praise, not critical!
Thank you ever so much. It's my pleasure.
Sebastiao Salgadao is my favorite photographer of all time. His work is biblical in scale. Watch the documentary Salt of the Earth for a stunning introduction to his life work
I have it booked marked somewhere - just need to find the time! And yes, biblical is exactly the right word!
I love black and white, I'm slowly getting through your videos, amazing inspiration, you should think about doing audiobooks, btw thumbs up channel, a channel I take notes from.
Clyde Butcher may be a bit too much like Ansel Adam’s for your liking, but I really enjoy his swamp and cloud images
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not anti Ansel, I do like some of his work, it's just as I've grown older I'm less enamored with it (for various reasons)
@@ThePhotographicEye Ah, that makes sense. I think the educational work he did and his time spent in the darkroom are his more impressive points, but he sounds like a curmudgeon when it comes to later/different styles of photography that he didn’t agree with.
Yes, I believe so. Still his contribution is undeniable.
@@ThePhotographicEye no doubt
Really enjoyed this, interesting combination of styles but I'm afraid to say the only one that stopped me in my tracks was Ansel Adams. Realise I'm a populist but good grief the depth.
Thanks.
You have good videos but your audio could have some improvements. I would cut the low frequencies and enhance some high and mid frequencies for better understanding and clarity.
Robert Adams is new to me, though I instantly recognized the landscape he was framing. I lived in Colorado Springs in the late 1980s and now live in Denver. I will need to look more into his work - thank you for sharing it.
My pleasure Matt.
I've very keen on his work, glad to have introduced you
@@ThePhotographicEye I was able to a bit of digging today on his work and plan to purchase some of the re-issues of his books. Really inspiring work, candid and compelling in equal parts. Thank you again for the inspiration.
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I probably would add Simon Norfolk, who does quite a bit of work for National Geographic magazine, but some of his stories about getting into Afghanistan, & places such as that, under the radar, some of his books are definitely worth exploring.
Better still because only in his mid 50s, he’s only just started getting going!
Thanks for the suggestion
@@ThePhotographicEye I think some of the PhD readers in Photography, such as the one at Cumbria Uni would be a worthwhile side step, for example seeing how Heidegger, existentialism and suchlike influence the image.
To that end clearly Susan Sontag amongst others who have articulated at some length about the photographic image, David Campany too.
Ah, thank you! This to make long a story short. And making it a bit longer.. pure inspiration, as usual with your videos. Oberholzer+++ I like very much.
Never heard his name before 😊 About the others, excluded Adams, I tried to see their photos with the colours of my imagination 🤔(?) because I really like vibrant colours. I am Martin Parr fan😁 Thank you for being a very talented teacher.
That's wonderful, thanks ever so much toto' le moko'
Another great video, and some names I need to look into further. Perhaps it's my being in Florida, but I would echo what others have said about Clyde Butcher. His huge prints make it seem as if you can just walk into the scene. How about Peter Lik? A big gallery success for sure, but many of his images are stunning.
Wasn't aware of Clyde Butcher, but I did spend some time in FL in the early 00's
Obie Oberholzer is my absolute favourite photographer. His combination of colour, light, commentary and humour are unparalleled. Highly recommend you to follow him on FB and get his recent work and words. Second favourite is Michael Kenna, then Sabastio Salgado. Genesis is a monumental work.
Already follow him on FB. He once judged some of my prints when I was a student.
Thanks for a really interesting and informative video. It’s funny how half of the subjects in these images you wouldn’t even give a second look. Who new that cabbage leaves could be so photographic. Thanks
Hi Alex (I'm an Alex too :D)
Glad you enjoyed it - Part of the joy of photography is that we can use it to see the world in a whole new way.
Check out Edward Westons other work too - the peppers, and shells.
If you like that way of looking, the photography of Harry Callahan would be worth investigating.
@@ThePhotographicEye Pleased to hear from you Alex. I'll check him out.
Have you featured Jason Lee yet. If not it worth checking him out. Kiff video as usual 😎
Great. One is missing - the Robert Adams of color photography: Joel Sternfeld. He's very much alive and one of the greatest.
Thanks for making that suggestion. Not heard of him before, but will check his work out in more depth later on.
What a coincidence! Just bought Fay Godwin's Land like 20 minutes ago. Probably Google's spying on me so showed me your video :) Also 100% agree on Robert Adams, you should have mentioned his writing too - it's absolutely brilliant.
Haha, yes Google knows all!
Will be doing some more videos on Robert Adams soon, stay tuned!
Hope you enjoying Fay Godwin’s book Dmitry, in my humble opinion an all time great, good to see her work mentioned here.
@@derricksansome236 Thank you Derrick, I do indeed. It's been a while but I just can't put it down and keep looking at it almost every day. It's fantastic work!
Thank you. I learned I need to study. Why is it a revelation each time I come to that conclusion?
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Hi Alex. An interesting video, but I fear we missed the edges of some of the images. Could you perhaps re-transcode in 16:9?
BTW, to paraphrase the famous graffiti about Eric Clapton: for me, Salgado is God. His landscapes, nature shots, photojournalism and portraits - simply breathtaking. IMHO, every photographer needs a copy of "Genesis" on their bookshelf.
All the best.
This video was quite early in my YT career. These days I'm more adept at showing the images in a better format :D
'Workers' was the second 'proper' monograph I ever saw. That was almost 30 years ago now and I still don't have any Salgado in my library - shame on me!
@@ThePhotographicEye get Genesis. It's a tour de force of photography.
Have a good one.
How about Clyde Butcher? or Lewis "Duke" Baltz?
Those are great suggestions Jerry..
You mentioned photographers working with film (would mention Burke-White), how about DSLR “influencers”
Yes me too, not a fan of Ansel Adams and would much prefer the Landscape work of Ernst Haas, as for Edward Weston, then I prefer the work of Cara Weston. Kenna, oh yes.
Hi Alex. Thank you for your content, it is very inspiring. One little suggestion however, could you try to improve your sound quality? Especially on some devices it is very difficult to hear you clearly.
Hi. Thanks for the feedback - this is an older video and waaaay back before I worked on the sound quality.
Thanks for watching and subscribing.
Reverse the order, and I concur. Or I can just pretend that there is no order. Yes, that works.
I enjoyed the variety here. No more will I think of landscape photography as synonymous with Ansel Adams. Shame on me!
Thanks (and thanks for the heads up about the odd aspect ratio - turns out I had a wrong setting clicked in handbreak).
Glad you enjoyed the variety - I tired to mix it up a bit
Not sure I would classify Rob Adams as a landscape photographer but I come out of the Ansel Adams school. However, I do love the Adams photographs that you showed and I was not acquainted with it. I categorize that more as city/town/urban photography--sort of "hand of man" images. Whatever the category one wants to place them, they are well photographed and well developed/printed. Great, interesting and informative video
Thanks for your perspective. I see this as more of a broad palette of 'landscape'. No doubt somewhere, someone disagrees with both of us!
Do you know about
Christian Fletcher?
Luke Austin?
Tony Hewitt?
I've not heard of them - what genre do they mostly work in?
@@ThePhotographicEye The first two are former International Landscape Photographers if the year.
Tony has been Australian Professional Photographer of the year in five categories including landscape and aerial.
Look at Girt by Sea on the Canon Australia TH-cam channel.
I had a a strong feeling there was a South African in there somewhere. Takes one to know one. Well done on featuring Obie's work.
Me too I am not a fan on Ansel Adams, I suddenly feel less alone e on my island
I would add Skyline from Franco Fontana, for minimalisr abstract color photography.
I don't agree with half of what you say. I get something from the other half though.
Sounds like almost a win in my book if you enjoy half of my offering :D
Thanks for the comment.
I think Kenna shoots with a Hasselblad most of the times, and delves into Holgas once in a while. Anyway, enjoyed the commentary.
I'm fairly new to Kenna, but that sounds about right.
I'm not a huge fan of Ansel Adams' work either. Maybe it's because I live in the western United States where he worked. I've seen a lot of his subjects in real life. I'm also tired of Henri Cartier Bresson's "decisive moments." I'd like to learn about more obscure photographers--especially women.
Thank you for the video, I hit the like button to support it.
You seem the kind of person who respect diverse of opinion so I am inclined to think that if I disagree in some aspects here you wouldn’t mind.
All great photographers in their own rights but very few real landscape photographers.
And my question to most of the people that make these type of videos is: where are the contemporary landscape photographers? Some of the most amazing imagery in landscape photography has been made in the last 2 decades, landscape photography became so popular with the event of digital photography that there are many enthusiasts amateurs that work rival some of the beat professionals of any era. Historically speaking some of the names you mentioned are crucial in landscape photography and is development per say, but I find any list incomplete without the works of some of the best landscape photographers of all time.
Thanks again for the video, I will look into some of the names you mentioned to check their work.
By the way I am Brazilian and I know and love Sebastian Salgado’s work in documentaries and in Landscapes.
I really enjoyed the video! However I dunno if someone else noticed it but most of the titles ar a little cut off the frame.
I have just discovered your channel today. I like what you do and have found new inspiration for my photography. I have subscribed and will watch a lot more of your videos. I put lots of my photographs on flickr my name there is cycle.nut66
Thanks Richard! Glad you enjoy the content
We loose so much time on gear.
You should have made a distinction between Urban and Rural landscapes. All in all I like your choice the South AfriKKKan photographer looks exciting I’ll be researching him. Thankyou.
Thanks for watching
@@ThePhotographicEye touché
Great list, not familiar with most of them, but the styles are right up my alley. I have a recommendation for you that I feel like might fit into the range of photography you highlighted here, Adrian Vila @aows. Amazing BW photography, I guess in mostly the landscape genre, but really so much more.